Micromanagement, PIP, very stressful environment - Technical Services Engineer MongoDB Employee Review

1.0
Aug 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary and RSU Good benefits in line with an American company 90% of the people you work with are very nice and passionate and they always help you during some hard situations

Cons

Micromanagement on a level I've never imagined before, everything has to be approved by senior engineers who are already stressed by the huge workload. As soon as you make few small mistakes, you will go in PIP, and from that moment on it will start the nightmare until you are completely brainwashed or you leave the company. Very stressful environment where mistakes are not allowed and management tend to make a big deal out of very little and stupid mistakes. Extra hours are expected on a normal basis.

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 23, 2026
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Pros

Most benefits are solid, exception being no matching 401K which is kind of insane for tech. Embraces the use of AI for all employees.

Cons

MongoDB is extremely dysfunctional from a marketing POV. The functional silos built a culture of no collaboration and just checking boxes of doing the same things over and over again. Leadership at the MLT level is out of their depth for what the business needs out of marketing to grow. There is arrogance encouraged by a bully CMO who has her favorites that can be held to different standards than others and it is abundantly clear. That attitude trickles down into all of MLT and never really offer solutions, just criticisms. Pay is lower than other companies for the same role. Lack of clarity of what it takes to get a promotion. Blatant disregard for Employee Engagement surveys that have been on a decline for years that leadership takes no ownership on improving.

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